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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
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October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
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Christopher Bryant, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-035
Preserving agricultural land and activities in the context of climate change and variability and
multiple other stressors: What can land use planning and strategic development planning for
agriculture contribute?
W
hile considerable research has been undertaken on the adaptation of agriculture to climate change and variability (CCV)
over the last 25 years, little emphasis has been placed on: 1) how agricultural adaptation to CCV has also to be set in the
context of multiple other stressors facing agriculture such as increasing demands for agriculture to become sustainable from
the environmental and human health perspective and from the perspective of continued urbanization pressures on agricultural
lands and activities around cities; and 2) how different forms of planning involving agriculture need to be integrated if
agricultural lands and activities are to be successfully maintained to be able to contribute to Food Security. This presentation
reviews key elements of research into agricultural adaptation to CCV and how these can be recognized in the integration of
land use planning AND strategic development planning for agricultural development. Examples coming from North America
and Western Europe will be used to demonstrate what types of progress are needed in planning for agricultural land and
activities especially near cities to ensure that agricultural development can contribute substantially more to Food Security than
it has in the past.
Biography
Christopher Bryant has been Professor in Geography at the University of Waterloo (20 years) and at the Université de Montréal (24 years); he is currentlyAdjunct Professor
at the Université de Montréal and in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph. He is one of the world’s leading researchers in
agriculture around cities (50 years of research), and he has also spent 26 years of research in the adaptation of agriculture to climate change and variability, as well as 30
years in research in local community development. He is currently in the top 7 % of researchers in the Research Gate network.
christopher.robin.bryant@gmail
Christopher Bryant
University of Montreal, Canada